About

I start with the number people disagree on.

Two teams can report different totals and both be following their own rules. The interesting work is tracing those rules back to the data, then agreeing on what the business actually wants to measure.

How I work

My background spans data engineering, consulting and analytics leadership. I enjoy the part of architecture where a design has to work against real source data. At Vantage, an order could arrive from any of more than ten ERP systems. Getting to a shared model meant working through local identifiers, historical changes and the definitions Finance and Commercial used every day.

At Affirma, I worked on a different part of the problem. A statement of work had to describe what a team could deliver, which dependencies belonged to the client and how both sides would recognize success. Managing a 21-person pipeline team made those commitments tangible.

What I’m exploring

NorthTrace is my independent technical project for investigating AI-assisted reconciliation. I’m interested in the boundary between a number calculated by SQL and an explanation a person can verify. The portfolio demonstration makes each step visible with synthetic data.

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Education

MBA, Data Management
University of Kansas · 2010

B.S., Economics
Texas A&M University · 2006